“I enjoy perpetual spring: the year always shines, trees are leafing, the solid always fodders. I have a fruitful garden in my dowered fields, fanned by breezes, fed by limpid fountains. My husband filled it with well-bred flowers, saying: ‘Have jurisdiction of the flower, goddess.’ I often wanted to number the colours displayed, but could not: their abundance defied measure.” – Ovid, Fasti 5.193
Flora is a Roman goddess, one of flowers, spring, beginnings, renewal, fertility, abundance and growth. She isn’t just a goddess of flowers, but a goddess of life, …

One of my groups favorite Sabbats is Ostara or Eostre’ also known as spring equinox , landing on or about March 21st This is the time when spring is just beginning and some flowers and trees are beginning to blossom. It is a beautiful and exciting time of the year, and we always have a gathering where we invite friends and families to join us in our festivities.
Along with the wonderful meal we prepare with our spring foods, we play a few games …

(Imagine a Wise Woman in the old days, her hair just turning grey. She wears slightly ragged clothes. She walks through the forest at night …)
The Crooked Path
Alone I walk the crooked path
A heavy basket upon my back
Through moonlit groves to home at last
Guided by dimming stars above my head
Through the valley and around the bend
With eager eyes do I see the gate ahead
Behind me lays the farmer’s hedge
Beyond the hill does my cottage stand
Away from village lights and prying eyes
I work a craft they cannot understand
My garden beckons while …

Many tarot readers are also tarot collectors or, as I refer to us, tarot-holics. We will spend quite a bit to get the latest or rarest deck, even chasing down those special, limited edition, self-published titles to add to our collections.
Not only are we acquisitive, we are also inquisitive. We like to see how various artists and authors interpret different cards. It is endlessly fascinating to compare one artist’s interpretation to another’s and to see how that aligns with our interpretations as well. This process broadens …